Artificial Intelligence: Voice Recognition

Voice recognition technology is constantly improving and is thus becoming an ever-more important factor in web design. Here we present a list of relevant statistics to inform you all about what is being dubbed as the "voice search revolution"...

At least half of all internet searches will be initiated by voice from 2020 onwards (comScore)

Around 30% of all searches will be done without a screen by 2020 (Gartner)

55% of all households will own a smart speaker by 2022 (OC&C Strategy Consultants)

The market for voice recognition will top $600 billion by the end of this year (Technavio)

One in six people currently own a voice-activated smart speaker such as the Amazon Echo (Edison Research)

As of January 2018, there were around 1 billion voice searches each month (Alpine AI)

The living room is the most popular location for a voice-activated speaker (55% of people); other popular locations are the bedroom (25%) and kitchen (22%) (Google)

72% of people with a voice-activated speaker say that it is used 'as part of their daily routine' (Google

65% of Amazon Echo owners 'can't imagine' returning to a time before they owned the device (GeoMarketing)

35.8% of millennials use voice-enabled digital assistants at least once a onth; this number is predicted to rise to 39.3% in 2019 (eMarketer)

Voice search currently accounts for a quarter of searches conducted on the Windows 10 taskbar (Microsoft)

The Amazon Echo Dot was the bestselling product across Amazon in 2018's holiday season (Techcrunch)

94% of all smart speakers are made by either Amazon or Google (Strategy Analytics)

Google Assistant is available on over 400 million devices (Google)

19% of consumers have made a voice purchase using a digital home assistant, with a further 33% planning to do so in the next year (Walker Sands)